Vessel or container.



No. 743,180. uPATENTED NOV. 8, 1903.

W. S. MELLEN.

VESSEL 0B. CONTAINER.

APPLIGATION FILED ooT.17. 1901.

No MODEL.

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UNITED STATES atented November 3, 1901-5.

PATENT OEETCE.

WILLIAM S. MELLEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS' TO MOUND CITY PAINT da COLOR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

`VESSEL OR CONTAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,180, dated November 3, 1903.

Application iiled October 17, 1901. Serial No. 79,001. (No modelh To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. MELLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vessels or Containers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a vessel or container composed of a body of sheet material having a layer of fabric covering adhesively applied to said body and treated in a manner to render the vessel impervious and liquid or air tight, the object of the invention being, essentially, to produce a vessel of inexpensive nature possessing the same value or greater value than similar vessels as at present constructed of sheet metal.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a View, partly in perspective and partly in vertical section, of a vessel constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. II is a perspective view of the body of the vessel with the end caps shown separated from the central body member. Fig. III is an enlarged detail sectional View of a fragment of the completed vessel, showing the attachment of the bail-receiving ears. p

l designates the central body member of the vessel, which preferably consists of a sheet of wood veneer having its ends joined by a strip 2 of cloth or other suitable material'by which said member is held in shape. Y

3 is a bottom cap of the vessel-body provided with a iiange-rim 4, that is adapted to fit over the lower edge of the central body member l, and 5 is the top cap, having a flangerim 6, adapted to fit over the upper end of the body member l and provided with an inletopening 7. The bottom and top caps 3 and 5 are, like the central body member, preferably of Wood veneer.

The body of the vessel has applied to it a layer of fabric that is adhesively applied thereto and treated to coat it in such manner as to render it impervious and liquid-tight.

8 designates the main body-section of the fabric layer, which, as shown, is in the form of a jacket. The body-section 8 preferably extends from top to bottom of the vessel and overlaps the upper and lower edges thereof.

9 is the bottom fabric-layer section, which extends across the bottom of the vessel-body and upwardly within the lower end of the main body-section 8, so as to produce an overlap joint at the meeting of said sections S and 9.

10 is the top fabric-layer section applied to the body-cap 5 and turned under the edge of said cap at the inlet-opening 7 therein and positioned at its outer edge beneath the upper end of the main body layer-section 8, so that said sections S and 10 overlap each other to effect a secure joint. j

Subsequent to the applicationlof the fabriclayer sections 8, 9, and 10 to the body of the vessel a suitable filler, of paint, varnish, or japan or other adhesive coating, is applied to the fabric layer and to the interior of the can in order to render the entire article impervious, and the vessel is then baked or air-dried to produce proper setting of the filler, paint, or other coating.

The vessel is preferably provided with ears 11, that may be of a strip of fabric, one end of which is introduced through the fabric layer and adhesively held Within said layer, while the other end is adhesively secured to the outer face of the layer, as seen in Fig. III. The bail l2 may be connected to said ears by rings 13.

s 14: represents reinforcing-rings that are seated in the upper and lower corners of the vessel and are adhesively fixed to the body member and caps, these rings being introduced to add rigidity and strength to the vessel.

I claim as my invention- In a vessel, the combination of a body of thin wood veneer, having an interior coating of adhesive substance, said body comprising a. central member, a, top inlet-cap and a. botcentral member, and reinforcing-rings seated tom cap, also of thin wood Veneer, tted to in the upper and lower corners of said vessel. the ends of said central member, of fabric layers adhesvely applied to said central WILLIAMS' MELLEN' 5 member and each of said caps, the layer on In presence 0fsad central member overlapping the layer E. S. KNIGHT,

on said caps to hold the latter firmly to said M. P. SMITH. 

